Joe,
I am not sure how Nebraska and Maine handle this
successfully, but in my state, congressional districts
cross county boundaries. This means that the counties
would have to combine precincts from several counties
to make up a congressional district to decide which
presidential candidate won each district. While the
state obviously handles that when dealing with
congressional elections, the scenario gets more
complex. If a recount is required, as per state law,
this could be an enormous task without a district
board to oversee the inter-county co-ordination.
Co-ordinating portions of 67 counties making up 25
electoral votes seems far more complex than our state
may want to tackle. After all, we are still counting,
re-counting and re-recounting from last Tuesday....
Marie Causey
Oviedo High School, yes it's in Florida : )
--- Joe Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anyone know WHY so many states DON'T DO IT THIS
> WAY?
> Perhaps the Political Science/History folks can
> comment.
>
> -- Joe
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lee Creighton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "AP Statistics" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 8:11 AM
> Subject: [ap-stat] RE: election proposal
>
>
> > People are listening! This is exactly how Nebraska
> and Maine vote, as we
> speak.
> >
> > It was decided after the disastrous 1824 election
> that the states would
> have the power to manage how they pick electors, and
> *not* the federal
> government.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Jon Graetz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2000 11:30 PM
> > > To: AP Statistics
> > > Subject: [ap-stat] RE: election proposal
> > >
> > >
> > > I like it! Now, to get anyone else to listen...
> > >
> > > Jon Graetz
> > > The Miami Valley School
> > > 5151 Denise Drive
> > > Dayton, OH 45429
> > > (937)434-4444
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Reba Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2000 11:00 PM
> > > To: AP Statistics
> > > Subject: [ap-stat] election proposal
> > >
> > >
> > > I've been toying with this idea:
> > >
> > > Each state has the same number of electors as
> their congressional
> > > delegation: e.g. in VA, we have 11
> congressional districts
> > > + 2 senators =
> > > 13 electors.
> > >
> > > Let's keep the electors, but have the ones
> representing the
> > > congressional
> > > districts vote the way their district votes.
> Then the 2
> > > at-large electors
> > > will vote the way the state as a whole votes.
> > >
> > > I think this is more equable than
> winner-take-all. I also
> > > think it would
> > > be a more representative sample of the popular
> vote, but
> > > still giving the
> > > smaller states as much clout as the larger ones.
> > >
> > > Reba Taylor
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
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> > >
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